Transcript: Mark: Whats the matter? Clare: Ive got a history exam on Friday and Im worried Ill fail it. Mark: Why? Youre brilliant at history. Clare: It isnt difficult but I have to remember a lot of information. These are my notes from today. Mark:

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 一起闲话英语-English Chitchat

I find myself in crowds, audiences, mobs. Just as often I am alone, in a field, house, car, on a beach, in a grammar school in the middle of the night. I fear finding myself in a prison cell, an elevator full of people, the middle of a highway. I app

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 时间旅行者的妻子

Todd: Clare, what are your plans for tonight? Clare: Well, tonight, first of all I'm going to head back home and take a nap because I've got a big night ahead of me. So, I'm going to be going out quite late, about 11:00 so I'll need my energy, but un

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听力题目: 1. (A). She forgot something at school. (B). She goes to class two days a week. (C). She isnt in school today. (D). She sent a letter home from school. 2. (A). We will meet every Friday. (B). We meet on the first Friday of every month

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Phil:Every year,Lukes birthday falls right around Thanksgiving,and so it gets lost in the holiday shuffle. Clare:One year we forgot completely,and we had to improvise a cake of stuffing. Phil:Which,by the way,he was fine with.Hes one of those kids,y

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 跟着美剧练发音

Phil:Yeah,our kids are great. Clare:They are the greatest. Phil:Gosh,were blessed. Clare:We are.But,um,are they the best at something?Id have to think about that. Phil:Well,Alex is great at every single thing she tries--so,you know,shell find her spe

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Clare:Alex and I can't just disagree.I mean, she has to turn everything into a fight. Manny:Hmm, a strong, independent woman.Sounds like somebody else I know. Clare:I was never hostile,thou.This -- this whole thing with the dress --Never had this pro

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Clare counts. I race around picking underwear and socks from the floor, collecting spoons and coffee cups from various horizontal surfaces and chucking them into the kitchen sink. As she says Nine hundred and sixty-seven, I remove the tie from her ey

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 时间旅行者的妻子

So after dinner I asked Etta if I could go outside and she said did I have homework and I said Spelling and bring leaves for art class, and she said Okay as long as you come in by dark. So I went and got my blue sweater with the zebras and I got the

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Thanks, Clare, you did a great job I call softly. I am surprised when she appears at the entrance to the clearing. Its getting dark quickly and Clare looks tiny and scared in the half light. Hi. Hi, Clare. Thanks for the clothes. Theyre perfect, and

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You will. When you and I meet in my present that will happen fairly frequently. More often than Id like, Clare. So who did you like in 1975? Nobody, really. At twelve I had other stuff to think about. But when I was thirteen I had this huge crush on

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She starts to put all the pieces back in their box, carefully dividing white and black. Lots of people know about Paul McCartneyIm the only one who knows about you. But youve actually met me, and youve never met him. My mom went to a Beatles concert.

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I help myself to a doughnut. Its a Bismarck, my favorite. The frosting is melting in the sun a little, and it sticks to my fingers. Clare finishes her doughnut, rolls up the cuffs of her jeans and sits cross-legged. She scratches her neck and looks a

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Ruths parents are in San Francisco for a week, so at least she will have some time to repair, clean, and explain, but Im glad its not my house all the same. Ruths older brother, Jake, has also invited his friends, and altogether there are about a hun

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HENRY: A long time has passed, maybe an hour or so. I eat half the potato chips and drink the warm Coke Clare has brought along. I nap a bit. Shes gone for so long that Im starting to consider going for a walk. Also I need to take a leak. I hear heel

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Clare is going to kill me for this. Im a friend of Clares parents. They were worried about her taking the car to a party where there might be alcohol, so they asked me to go along and play chauffeur in case she got too pickled to drive. Helen pouts.

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Headlights appear in the distance. Clare turns her lights on and we are rushing along again, perfectly aligned between the yellow stripes in the middle of the road and the edge of the highway. Its 11:38. Clare is expressionless in the reflected dashb

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Since you havent actually gotten married yet, I suppose we would have to say that you are my girlfriend. Clare puts her hand someplace it probably shouldnt be. Id rather be your mistress. Youre sixteen, Clare. I gently remove her hand, and stroke her

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Spanked? Clare looks at me, smiling, her eyebrows halfway to her hairline. Never mind. So you went to a movie, and...? Oh. Well, then he wanted to go to Travers. What is Travers? Its a farm on the north side. Clares voice drops, I can hardly hear her

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Nell and Etta always got mad when I did anything in their kitchen beyond getting myself a Coke, and since Ive moved to Chicago I dont have anybody to cook for, so I havent been motivated to work on it. Mostly Im too busy with school and all, sol just

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